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Armed Forces (1987): Army--approximately 1 million
(including about 480,000 active reserves); navy--about 5,000; air
force--40,000 (including 10,000 in Air Defense Command).
Compulsory two-year conscription for males was extended during
war.
Combat Units and Major Equipment (1987) (Equipment
estimates tentative because of wartime losses): Army--seven corps
headquarters, five armored divisions (each with one armored
brigade and one mechanized brigade), three mechanized divisions
(each with one armored brigade and two or more mechanized
brigades), thirty infantry divisions (including army, volunteer,
and reserve brigades), one Presidential Guard Force (composed of
three armored brigades, one infantry brigade, and one commando
brigade), six Special Forces brigades; about 4,600 tanks,
including advanced versions of T-72, about 4,000 armored
vehicles, more than 3,000 towed and self-propelled artillery
pieces; Air Defense Command--about 4,000 self-propelled
antiaircraft guns, more than 300 SAMs; Army Air Corps--about 270
armed helicopters. Navy--one frigate, eight OSA-class patrol
boats with Styx SSMs, other small patrol, minesweeping, and
supply ships; (being held in Italy under embargo in 1988) four
Lupa-class frigates, with Otomast-2 SSMs and Albatros/Aspide
SAMs, six Assad-class corvettes with Otomat-2 SSMs. Air Force--
about 500 combat aircraft in 2 bomber squadrons, 11 fighterground attack squadrons, 5 interceptor squadrons, 1
counterinsurgency squadron, and 2 transport squadrons.
Military Budget: Fiscal year (FY) 1986 estimated at
US$11.58 billion.
Police, Paramilitary, and State Security Organizations:
(1987) People's Army--estimated 650,000 (constituted majority
of paramilitary reserves); Security Forces--4,800 estimate;
Frontier Guard, Futuwah (paramilitary youth organization),
Department of General Intelligence, regular civil police force--
sizes unknown.
Data as of May 1988
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